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Contact: Ayodele Hippolyte

Thursday, April 12, 2001 - The issue of environmental health is becoming of increasing importance to St. Lucia’s socio-economic development. Food safety practices and water quality management are key factors in the tourism and agriculture sectors, in particular. However, these issues are not unique to St. Lucia and so there has been a move by the Barbados Association of Environmental Health Officers to form a partnership between that organisation and the Department of Environmental Health here.

Representatives of the Association arrived on the island last Wednesday for a four-day visit. Tyrone Applewhite, President of the Association said that Barbados and St. Lucia faced very similar environmental health challenges such as water quality management and the prevention of food borne diseases. Mr. Applewhite hopes that a partnership between the two countries will facilitate an exchange of ideas and expertise on how to tackle these issues effectively.

The Association is also here to establish a framework for the reactivation of the Caribbean Association of Environmental Health Officers which was first formed in the 1980’s but has been dormant for a number of years. Mr. Applewhite and other representatives met with health officials and visited some of the island’s environmental health sites. He was impressed with the work of the Department of Environmental Health and there are plans for the department to visit their Barbadian counterparts soon.

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